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Definition of Eschatology
1. Noun. The branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the ultimate destiny of humankind.
Definition of Eschatology
1. n. The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
Definition of Eschatology
1. Noun. System of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death. ¹
2. Noun. The study of the end times — the end of the world, notably in Christian theology the second coming of Christ, the Apocalypse or the Last Judgment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Eschatology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1915)
"The relation of the primitive apostolic eschatology to the teaching of our Lord.
... And since recent study of the NT seems to have shown that eschatology ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is true of the OT as a whole that the eschatology of the people overshadows
that of the individual, though it is true at the same time that, ..."
3. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1909)
"Schleiermacher : " eschatology is essentially prophetic ; and is therefore vogue and
... eschatology deals with the precursors of Christ's second coming, ..."
4. A Theology for the Social Gospel by Walter Rauschenbusch (1917)
"CHAPTER XVIII eschatology eschatology raises two questions of profound interest
to the human mind. ... The Christian religion needs a Christian eschatology. ..."
5. Bibliotheca Sacra by Dallas Theological Seminary (1894)
"BIBLICAL eschatology : Its Relation to the Current Presbyterian Standards and
the Basal Principles that must Underlie Their Revision ; Being a Review of the ..."
6. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"Space forbids a discussion of Schweitzer's ingenious but unconvincing theory of
a sacramental quasi- material eschatology, where matter through the ..."
7. The Interpretation of History by Max Simon Nordau (1910)
"CHAPTER IX eschatology THE English saying, " Don't prophesy unless yoi know,"
affords a really exhaustive definition of th relation of human knowledge to ..."
8. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1884)
"ARTICLE I.—AN ANALYSIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN ITS RELATION TO eschatology. THE one
department of Theology on which as yet no cer- ..."
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